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   #19. Posted at 05:18 AM on Dec 21st 2006 Edit   Reply
SGT Lindy
NFORCE, VIA and SIS chip sets.....the mother of all problems.

I stuck with Intel even through the days of presshot just because of their trouble free/widely support chipsets.
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#19, But... this isn't a chipset problem. RTFA? FWIW, I've never h...  :  flip-mode  (#20)  «
#20, Just because it can be fixed via a BIOS update doesnt exc...  :  Shintai  (#22)  «
#22, It's a motherboard signal problem. Just WTF is not in ...  :  flip-mode  (#24)  «
#24, Lol ye sure, and geforce 6 and the infamous video d...  :  Shintai  (#25)  «
#25, I was bit by the broken video decoder on the 6 s...  :  flip-mode  (#26)  «
#26, Its still early news. And seems only eVGA of ...  :  Shintai  (#27)  «
#25, It's not like they're trying to blame someone el...  :  just brew it!  (#29)  «
#29, Yes, I never said they blamed anyone else. Bu...  :  Shintai  (#30)  «
#30, sis 735 was pretty damn stable. they did h...  :  Beomagi  (#31)  «
#20, It's the whole platform, and since Nvidia is doing the wh...  :  Flying Fox  (#28)  «
#19, They have good driver support, a major plus, but they need t...  :  wierdo  (#21)  «
#21, "They have good driver support" Maybe.....maybe for the vi...  :  SGT Lindy  (#34)  «

   #5. Posted at 05:22 PM on Dec 20th 2006 Edit   Reply
Flying Fox
Intel chipsets on Intel platform is still king in stability (i820 excepted of course)... :roll:
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#5, In all fairness, i820 itself was perfectly stable. The dodgy...  :  Norphy  (#33)  «

   #14. Posted at 10:17 PM on Dec 20th 2006, Edited at 10:27 PM on Dec 20th 2006 Edit   Reply
PetMiceRnice
Oh lucky me, I was going to buy one of these eVGA motherboards but decided that I didn't need SLI and got an Asus P5B-E instead. Of course, it was quite a bit cheaper for me to get the Asus board as well and the feature set was closer to my needs overall.
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#14, just be careful of the windows bios flash thing on those boa...  :  eitje  (#23)  «
#23, Dunno, I've been using windows bios flashing for quite a ...  :  Kunikos  (#32)  «

   #15. Posted at 10:35 PM on Dec 20th 2006 Edit   Reply
mirkin
Id like to thank everyone for beta testing these expensive boards for me...

thank you
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#15, I own stock in the electric company, so I'd like to thank ev...  :  crabjokeman  (#18)  «

   #10. Posted at 06:55 PM on Dec 20th 2006 Edit   Reply
Spyder22446688
What they need is a socket T i440BX board...
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#10, Ah yes, because a Core 2 Duo would work great with about 400...  :  Forge  (#13)  «
#13, Yeah, but 440BX was one of the chipsets they got RIGHT, w...  :  nexxcat  (#16)  «
#16, What's wrong with the 965 chipset? Or even the 975? Act...  :  Flying Fox  (#17)  «

   #11. Posted at 07:17 PM on Dec 20th 2006 Edit   Reply
Lord.Blue
Everyone just get an Asus board, and then it just works.
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#11, Isn't the Asus board selling for $350-$400?  :  BRiT  (#12)  «

   #9. Posted at 06:22 PM on Dec 20th 2006 Edit   Reply
Taddeusz
Has nVidia ever rolled out a chipset with no problems at all? I don't believe any one of their chipsets have ever come out that didn't have it's own set of problems. All of them had issues that had to be fixed afterwards.

nVidia is probably one of the main reasons AMD bought ATI because nobody really makes a solid chipset for the Athon 64. They all have their little issues. Hopefully AMD will straighten things out.

That being said, my next major upgrade will most likely be Intel unless something exciting comes out from AMD. Even fanboys have to admit that Intel won this round.
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   #8. Posted at 06:20 PM on Dec 20th 2006 Edit   Reply
bthylafh
Stop the presses, Nvidia's having drive-controller problems.
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   #7. Posted at 06:01 PM on Dec 20th 2006 Edit   Reply
StashTheVampede
Always wait for rev 2/3?
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   #6. Posted at 05:31 PM on Dec 20th 2006 Edit   Reply
Hallucinosis
I have a new system using this eVGA 680i motherboard. When I initially set up my 0+1 array, one of the 4 drives was dead on arrival.

I went ahead and set up the system any way. I experienced massive headaches with the nVidia network manager (BSODs, inability to load windows, etc.). I managed to work around those problems via the Windows XP repair console.

When I installed my replacement drive (4th drive), I added it back to my RAID 0+1 array and the status was set for rebuild. Windows triggered a chkdsk and started reporting all kinds of crazy errors. After chkdsk was done, the system rebooted and the partition was completely fried.

I remade the array and started a windows xp install on it with a slow format. The format of my 4x500GB RAID 0+1 array took about 25 hours. That was a bit longer than I expected. When it was finally done, I was able to install Windows on it fine and everything appears to be working well now. The RAID status is "healthy."

I expect that if one of my drives were to fail now, I might run into similar issues again. That said, I'll definitely install this BIOS update tonight.
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   #4. Posted at 04:55 PM on Dec 20th 2006 Edit   Reply
albundy
am i ever glad i am still using a scsi controller
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   #3. Posted at 04:53 PM on Dec 20th 2006 Edit   Reply
format_C
They just can't get their SATA controllers right...
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   #2. Posted at 04:39 PM on Dec 20th 2006 Edit   Reply
TheDVDMan
Great. All this hits right before I get one of these boards :(

Maybe I'll nab a Gigabyte P965 instead...
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   #1. Posted at 04:39 PM on Dec 20th 2006 Edit   Reply
Forge
This is not good for the NV camp. A couple of pervasive and serious bugs early on can haunt a brand for a very long time. Ask Via.
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